Our colony eez muy bueno.
Posted on 03/29/2007 5:14:22 PM PDT by mmanager
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Beekeepers throughout the United States have been losing between 50 and 90 percent of their honeybees over the past six months, perplexing scientists, driving honey prices higher and threatening fruit and vegetable production. At a House Agricultural Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., today, members of various organizations came together to share their concerns about what they have been calling the "Colony Collapse Disorder," or CCD. Honeybees have been mysteriously dying across the United States, sending honey prices higher and threatening the agriculture industry.
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Really? I've only heard of this in passing.
Another media push-crisis?
How long before they declare this as proof of Global Warming?
Or perhaps, AIDS is migrating to bees. If only Ronald Reagan had...
Our colony eez muy bueno.
Global warming, no doubt about it. (It would be a very serious crisis if true)
I know a guy who lost a most of his this winter.
Just found em dead in the hives
see also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791756/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787184/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1783102/posts
It's that damn DDT.
When will we ever learn?
Consider the source, CNN. I won't believe it until the Weather Channel reports it.
I searched it...sorry
no... not dupes... just mush more on the story...
er... much even.
I have a patch of wildflowers [pink evening primrose] in full bloom beginning yesterday. Today I saw no honey bees. [Last year there were hundreds of bees coming and going.] I'm hoping that maybe the flowers, having just opened yesterday, haven't been discovered yet--it was cloudy today, so maybe the bees weren't out.
I did have loads of bumblebees at my wisteria vine this past week.
They say the disappearance of the honey bees is because of incecticides. I think the mercury and arsenic found in some of those jet (chem) trails may have something to do with it, too. 30 years ago few children suffered so many allergies and asthma. Today a great many of them do. Even older adults complain of respitory problems unrelated to heart or obesity today. The honey bees pollination is imperative for fruit and flower harvest. I hope they discover the cause of the disappearance soon.
They froze to death, global warming, you know.
It seems - and it may just be the reportage now - that the problem has gotten worse and more widespread.
> Our produce is a product of their work.
That's the point of my interest.
If true, this could be a much bigger deal than, say, Avian Flu.
I've heard this from some folks I know who keep bees. Either they have lost a lot or others they know have. The bee community is buzzing about this I guess you could say! Worrisome.
Very true and very troubling. No clues yet as to the source of the problem. This decline has been happening for years and is now epidemic. I am no entymologist, but it seems to coincide with the africanized bee scare.
I heard a man on the radio who's lost 90% of his hives--he's lost tens of thousands of dollars. Those bees that survived are sickly.
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